Filing-cabinet for disk records.



A. C. BOLTON.

FILING CABINET FOR DISK RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. II. I9I6.

Eatented June 26, 1917.

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ANDREVJ CHARLES BOLTON,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FILING-CABINET FOR DISK RECORDS.

Application filed February 11, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW C. BOLTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Filing-Cabinet'for Disk Records, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex act description.

My invention relates to the sectional type of cabinets for disk records. An object of the invention is to provide a simple and in expensive cabinet in which records of various sizes can be filed simultaneously, and which records are easily accessible independent of their size. Another object of the invention is to provide a cabinet for disk records which will present a portion of the disk out of the cabinet when the accessgivingmeans to the cabinet are operated. A further object of the invention is to provide-a cabinet in which any record in the cabinet may be exposed without exposing the other records in the cabinet.

lVith the above and other objects in view,

the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a cabinet embodying my invention, a view of the accessgiving-means being shown in the raised position; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

,lieferring to the drawings. 3 is a top, open, rectangularly-shaped base of a cabinet on which a bottom 4: of a section 5 of the cabinet rests. The bottom at has a depending molding 6 at the edges thereof for engaging the base to prevent the section 5 from 'i y The rear walls 7 and the side walls 8 of the cabinet are braced at the upper edges by a false top 9 depressed below the upper edges but spaced sufficiently from the bottom to accommodate between said false top and the bottom disks 10 of largest size. When only one section is used a removable top 11 rests on the edges of the rear and side walls in place of the bottom of any other section. The top has Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June to, 1911?.

Serial No. 77,622.

a depending molding 12 at the edges there of, similar-to the bottom of a section, to prevent the displacement of the top on the section. The top 11 forms a shallow casing for which a hinged cover 13 is provided. This casing may be used for classifying the various records filed in the cabinet.

The space between the side walls 8 of the section 5 is partitioned by wire members 1 1. One end of each wire is secured in the bot tom 1 adjacent the front of the section and the other, in a brace 15 secured to the false top 9 adjacent the rear wall. The distance between the adjacent wires let is such as to admit only a single record. Each of the wires is preferably covered with soft material so as to prevent injury to the disks. It is self-evident that if desired partition walls may be provided in lieu of the wires.

Each of the disk spaces is closed in front by a slide or shutter 16, consequently, the front of the cabinet is formed of a series of independent slides or shutters. Each slide when closing a disk space has its upper end engaged between the front edge of the false bottom 9 and the front molding 12 of the top 11. A clearance is provided between the upper extremity of the slide 16 and the top 11 to permit the lower extremity of the slide to be raised above the portion 17 of the front molding 6, the portion 1? locking the slide in closed position.

To expose a disk space a slide must be raised to clear the raised portion 17 of the molding 6. It can then be turned on a bead 18 provided on the false top 9 at the front of the section and moved into the space between the top 11 and the false top 9, the space therebetween being sufficient to accommodate the slide 16. A toe 19 is provided. on each slide to prevent the slide from being withdrawn from between the top 11 and the false top 9 and to retain the slide in a substantially horizontal. position on the false top, as shown in full line in Fig. 2 To facilitate the operation of the slides, each has a hook-shaped cut-out 20 to facilitate an upward movement thereof. Each slide above the cut-out 20 is reduced to facilitate the engagement thereof by the fingers when the adjacent slides are in closed position.

To maintain disks of various sizes against the corresponding slides 16 the bottom 4E has a forwardly inclined portion 21 on which the edges of all the disks rest, and which incline causes said disks to bear with their edges against the slides 16. If a slide against which a disk bears is raised and moved into the position as shown in full line in Fig. 2, the incline will cause the said disk to roll forward until stopped by the obstruction formed by the edge 22 on the bottom. Thus, a portion of a disk is exposed, as shown in dotted line in Fig. 2, and the same can be easily removed from the space in the section.

From the above description is will be seen that in my cabinet the access-giving-means, that is, the slide 16, normally maintain the disks on the incline of the bottom whereon the disks have a tendency to roll through a predetermined distance.

I claim:

1. In a'cabinet for disk records, means normally tending to roll the disk to expose a part thereof out of the cabinet, and accessgiving-means adapted to engage the edge of the disks, at a point lying on a substan tially horizontal radial line and resist their rolling movement.

2. In a cabinet, an inclined bottom for causing the disks placed edgewise there upon to roll toward the front of the cabinet, and access-giving-means to said cabinet adapted to engage the edges of the disks when in closed position at a point lying on a substantially horizontal radial line, thereby normally preventing the rolling of said disks on the bottom, said bottom having means preventing said disks from rolling off the bottom when the access-giving-means are displaced to give access to the cabinet.

In a cabinet for disk records, means normally tending to present a part of a record outof the cabinet, and accessgivingmeans to the cabinet normally preventing said first1nentioned means from advancing a record out of the cabinet.

4. In a cabinet for disk records, a bottom having a forwardly inclined part for receiving disks edgewisc thereupon, means sub-dividing said cabinet into spaces for individual disks, and a closing front formed of independent closing members for each individual space, each of said closing memhers adapted to engage the edge of a record within the space resting on the incline, said incline adapted to normally present a por.- lion of a disk out of the space when the closing members are displaced from the front of the cabinet.

5. In a cabinet for disk records, a bottom having a forward incline for receiving disks edgewise thereupon, a false top spaced from the top of the cabinet, means between the bottom and the false top subdividing the cabinet into individual spaces, each adapted to receive a record, a front for said cabinet formed of slides, one for each individual space, and adapted to engage the edge of a disk within the space, means at the bottom for locking the slides against lateral move ment, said slides adapted to be placed in the space between the false top and the top of the cabinet to expose any of the individual spaces whereby a record in an ex posed space will be caused by the incline to roll forward and expose a part thereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a cabinet for disk records, a bottom having a forwardly-inclined part for receiving disks edgewisc, said incline normally tending to cause the disk placed there upon to roll forward to expose a part thereof out of the cabinet, a false top spaced from the top of the cabinet, wires extending from the bottom of the cabinet to the false top thereof and subdividing the cabinet into individual spaces, a front for the cabinet formed of independent slides, one for each individual space, each of said slides being adapted to engage a disk within the space and each of said slides adapted to turn about the front edge of the false top when moving said slide into the space between the false top and the top of the cabinet, and means in the front of the cabinet at the bottom thereof normally preventing the turning movement of the slides, said slides having a predetermined limiting movement toward the top of the cabinet to clear the same of the means at the bottom, and whereby a slide can be moved from its normal position into the space between the false top and the top of the cabinet and whereby a disk placed on the incline of the bottom is allowed to roll to expose apart thereof out of the cabinet, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDRElV CHARLES BOLTON. lVitnesses i CHARLES UNGRIGLIT,

B. W. FINKEN.

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